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VERVE Books is a dynamic independent publisher of page-turning, diverse and original writing, based in the UK and led by a team of imaginative booklovers. Launched in 2018, our aim is to publish a wide range of compelling literature with a fresh and vital feel.

FORTHCOMING PRINT RELEASES

A. Rushby

A gripping gothic mystery that deepens across decades, All Her Beautiful Deaths is an exploration of classism and ownership in the art world, while beautifully portraying expressions of grief and love. Perfect for fans of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal with echoes of Daphne du Maurier.

Angela Flournoy

The Turner House brings us a colourful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It's a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home.

Divya Maniar

Blending biting social critique with an uncanny claustrophobia and the feverish pressure of 'influencer culture', After Care interrogates what happens behind the scenes of what we see on our screens and what that reflects back at us, the audience. It asks, in a world full of harm, is there any point in caring about anybody but yourself?

Genevieve Jagger

Bridging the gaps between contemporary gothic fiction, queer fiction and magical realism, Fragile Animals lures readers into Noelle's loose grasp on her world and immerses them in some of Scotland's most harsh and claustrophobic environments.

FORTHCOMING PRINT RELEASES

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NEW AND FORTHCOMING EBOOK RELEASES

Available September 2026

A. Rushby

A gripping gothic mystery that deepens across decades, All Her Beautiful Deaths is an exploration of classism and ownership in the art world, while beautifully portraying expressions of grief and love. Perfect for fans of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal with echoes of Daphne du Maurier.

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CURRENT NEW RELEASES

Laurie Petrou

Art, ambition and desire collide when a struggling academic becomes entangled in the marriage and creative life of her literary idol.

Lily Meyer
Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America.
Laura Sims
From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You comes a masterful domestic suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to fear for her life when she notices the dark silhouette of a man in the background of her self-portraits.
Jenna Gordon and Demi Echezona and Dylin Hardcastle and Seth Insua and Elle Nash and James Cahill and Chloe Michelle Howarth and William Rayfet Hunter and Joshua Jones and Joelle Taylor and Gerardo Sámano Córdova and Santanu Bhattacharya
The inaugural collection in the new VERVE Voices series, Queerphoria is a joyful and defiant queer-authored anthology proudly supporting Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ support line.

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS

Laura Sims

Taut and compelling, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession.

Genevieve Scott

A page-turning, thought-provoking novel about the lies we tell other people and the lies we tell ourselves.

Tara Moss
WWII may be over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she'd left behind in Europe in this thrilling tale of courage and secrecy set in glamorous 1940s Sydney.
Merle Nygate
Eli Amiram is Mossad's star spy runner and the man responsible for bringing unparalleled intelligence to the Israeli agency. Now, he's leading an audacious operation in the UK that feeds his ambition but threatens his conscience...

A twisting international spy novel, The Righteous Spy is an intriguing tale of espionage that portrays a clandestine world in which moral transgressions serve higher causes. A must-read for fans of Homeland, Fauda and The Americans.

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NEWS AND VIEWS

My Favourite Fictional Power Dynamics

In my latest novel, The Rayburn Affair, I’m exploring power dynamics again, and this time they are set against the academic and publishing worlds, in a friendship and in a marriage, in public and private... If I was building a book playlist for novels that compliment The Rayburn Affair and prepare the imagination for reading it, these are my top recommendations.

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND SHORT WAR BY LILY MEYER

Lily Meyer, author of SHORT WAR, talks inspiration behind her debut novel, US intervention and Latin American history.

Message from the editors of Queerphoria

Queerphoria is out in paperback and eBook, and we cannot stress enough how much of a pleasure it has been putting it together for you all. To see the incredible stories, essays, poems and reflections that have stemmed from such a broad brief all collated into one anthology has been so rewarding, creatively and personally.  

Most anticipated queer reads of 2026

Happy Pride Month! From the team and some of our queer VERVE authors, we're bringing you our most anticipated LGBTQIA reads for 2026. Buckle up and find the next book to add to your TBR.

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